Tower is designed as a sundial in Shandong, China
OPEN Architecture designs a cultural space based on the passage of sunlight and the time it marks, translating the invisible energies of nature into built form.
Rationalism for living, in a Spanish university
To renovate and extend the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in Zaragoza, Magén Arquitectos focused on rational shapes, evoking Rafael Moneo and David Chipperfield, and on details making the space a sharing experience.
Rural brutalism in northern Portugal
In a fragmented suburban countryside landscape, a house closes in from the outside and reveals itself on the inside, interweaving continuous spaces à la Adolf Loos and an exposed concrete structural matrix with a brutalist tone.
10 iconic contemporary cemeteries, from Aldo Rossi to Toyo Ito
The spaces of death offer food for thought on the themes of identity, and the yearning for permanence. And they also restore to humanity a life that is perpetuated in the dimension of memory.
A market in Portugal becomes a welcoming monument for the city
Between rationalist colonnades and brutalist concrete, Loftspace with Tiago Sousa has designed the new local market in Caminhas as a hub of lively urban energies.
A shared house is reborn in Verona
Romano Tinazzi rehabilitates a former railway workers' residence on the outskirts of the Veneto city, creating a co-living space for students and young workers that combines old and new through radical architectural gestures.
Living inside a wind tower, in Brazil
The abstract, truncated pyramid-shaped house designed by Atelier Matteo Arnone is a technological and emotional device that combines passive design with contemplation of the landscape.
Three itineraries in Turin, between industrial architecture and regeneration
For one long weekend every year, Turin becomes Italy’s capital of the arts, with Artissima, C2C and many side events. Discover through architecture how a city of workers has created a cultural excellence.
8 stories of bunkers transformed into new architecture
Military architecture transformed into homes, museums and parks, in Denmark, Berlin, England, between BIG and RAAF: we explore projects thorugh which bunkers can find a new life.
Mario Cucinella designs new Val d’Aosta University campus
The new university campus designed by MCA is a “technological glacier”, a manifesto of environmental sustainability that winks at organic architecture.
An ancient mill in Brittany becomes a contemporary winery
In Carmen Maurice Architecture's renovation project, the walls tell of the nearby Atlantic Ocean through their materials, while a French countryside area returns to the winemaking vocation of its landscape.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
In Argentina, a secret house hidden by its garden
A glass floor, an opaque floor and a recessed floor: three ways of relating to the open space in a house designed by Ana Smud to symbiotically blend with the vegetation.
Norman Foster interviews Neri Oxman: how to turn a mindset into a workspace
The guest editor of Domus in a conversation with the biodesign pioneer about the new interdisciplinary laboratory integrating architecture, engineering and biology.